Here’s your weekly Fedora report. Read what happened this week and what’s coming up. Your contributions are welcome (see the end of the post)!

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• Announcements
• Calls for Participation
• Help wanted
• Meetings & Events
• Releases

Announcements

• Automated reports of composes, updates-testing, etc will now be sent to the new test-reports list.
• Important changes to licesning guidelines.
• Inactive provenpackagers will be removed from the group on 23 August.

CfPs

Conference	Location	Date	CfP
Kieler Open Source und Linux Tage	Kiel, DE and virtual	16–17 Sep	closes 14 Aug
Hardwear.io Netherlands	The Hauge, NL	24–28 Oct	closes 15 Aug
SeaGL	virtual	4–5 Nov	closes 19 Aug
PyGeekle	virtual	6–7 Sep	closes 24 Aug
EuroRust	Berlin, DE and virtual	13–14 Oct	closes 28 Aug
Denver Dev Day	Denver, CO, US	20–21 Oct	closes 2 Sep
Vue.js Live	London, UK and virtual	28, 31 Oct	closes 5 Sep
EmacsConf	virtual	3–4 Dec	closes 18 Sep
JavaLand	Brühl, DE	21–23 Mar	closes 26 Sep
Python Web Conf	virtual	14–17 Mar	closes 1 Oct

Help wanted

• Package review requests:
  • 305 are awaiting a reviewer
  • 36 need a sponsor
• Submit your ideas for the “Feature Spotlight” series in Fedora Magazine
• Long-term failed to build from source packages will be retired in August
• Volunteers needed for Fedora Week of Diversity 2022
• Take the Fedora Docs survey to help us make improvements to the docs experience.
• Volunteers needed for Fedora Badges maintenance.
• Are you an EPEL user or contributor? Take the EPEL survey.

Upcoming test days

• 2022-08-14–21 — Kernel 5.19 Test Week
• 2022-08-15–21 — GNOME 43 Beta Test Week

Meetings & events

• Blocker reivew meeting — 1600 UTC Monday in #fedora-blocker-review
• Mindshare Committee meeting — 1200 UTC Tuesday in #fedora-mindshare
• FESCo meeting — 1700 UTC Tuesday in #fedora-meeting
• FPgM Office Hours — 1300 UTC Wednesday and 1900 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
• Council meeting — 1400 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting
• Fedora Social Hour — 2359 UTC Thursday in #social on Fedora.im

Releases

Release	open bugs
F35	4112
F36	3573
F37 (pre-release)	1476
Rawhide	6283

Prioritized Bugs

See the Prioritized Bugs documentation for information on the process, including how to nominate bugs.

Bug ID	Component	Status
2079833	cmake	NEW

Fedora Linux 37

• 1049 packages fail to build from source
• 152 packages fail to install

Schedule

Below are some upcoming schedule dates. See the schedule website for the full schedule.

• 2022-08-23 — Beta freeze begins, Change complete (100% complete) deadline
• 2022-09-13 — Current beta target date (early target date)

Changes

Status	Count
ASSIGNED	13
MODIFIED	17
ON_QA	22
CLOSED	1

The table below lists proposed Changes. See the ChangeSet page or Bugzilla for information on approved Changes.

Proposal	Type	Status
Emacs 28	Self-Contained	FESCo #2845

Blockers

Bug ID	Component	Bug Status	Blocker Status
2117706	kde-settings	NEW	Accepted(Beta)
2070823	anaconda	ON_QA	Proposed(Beta)
2101229	anaconda	NEW	Proposed(Beta)
1907030	dnf	NEW	Proposed(Beta)
2107858	dracut	POST	Proposed(Beta)
2109145	polkit	ASSIGNED	Proposed(Beta)
2110801	sddm	NEW	Proposed(Beta)

Fedora Linux 38

• 1049 packages fail to build from source
• 146 packages fail to install

Changes

The table below lists proposed Changes. See the ChangeSet page or Bugzilla for information on approved Changes.

Proposal	Type	Status
Add -fno-omit-frame-pointer to default compilation flags	System-Wide	FESCo #2817

Contributing

Have something you want included? You can file an issue or submit a pull request in the fedora-pgm/pgm_communication repo.